Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Avoid side effects in gpio_is_visible()

[Kent Gibson]

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 01:07:25AM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> 
> On 17/05/23 12:47, Kent Gibson wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:50:42PM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> >> Hi Kent,
> >>
> >>
> > Given appropriate line names, that is already something you can do with
> > the libgpiod v2 tools.  Something like:
> >
> > `for x in gpiochip*; do gpioset -c x tx-dis=1; done`
> Would that deal with the fact the GPIO lines are port1-tx-dis, 
> port2-tx-dis, ... port96-tx-dis?

That is assuming the lines are all given the same name - "tx-dis".

If the line names are all distinct, and you can generate the list, then
you could provide that list to gpioset instead.
e.g.
`gpioset port1-tx-dis=1 port2-tx-dis=1 ....`

and it will work out which lines are on which chips.

Cheers,
Kent.